ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,710, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device structure including forksheet transistors and methods of forming the same" was invented by Hong-Chih Chen (Changhua, Taiwan), Chun-Sheng Liang (Changhua, Taiwan), Yu-San Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei-Chih Kao (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device structure includes a first dielectric wall, a plurality of first semiconductor layers vertically stacked and extending outwardly from a first side of the first dielectric wall, a plurality of second semiconductor layers vertically st...